Gaurav Parab
Arrogance glints across the cliff face
A deceptive smile across the welcoming base
The snaking road ending like a bite
Keylong disappears out of sight
Too late to turn back, too soon to go on
The night is over, but it is not yet dawn
A slippery body lead by a firm mind
The next foothold is all I hope to find
How many have you dispatched below?
Quick ends to lives lived real slow
I look up as you look down
Is that a bell ringing at Keylong town?
What makes you come? The mountain asks
To claim another one of your masks?
You do not remember me it seems
You mountain! Appearing in my dreams
I dreamt you help those who seek their end
Once proud minds too broken to mend
Mountain, this is what I want you to do
Filter the morning from the dew
No life ever grew on these slopes
Plenty slipped away from jagged ropes
But before you let me go
To the end of my climb down below
I have one thing to ask, before I stop
Can you let me breathe once on your top?
4 comments:
It is beautiful!!!!!
The mountain and the man and the mind, all three come together in a seamless interface.
So, this was the reason for your being away for so long??
How was the trip?
Yes!
The Himalayas are the most remarkable thing in the world.
Gaurav, take a bow. I actually read your poem on google reader and could not look at the picture. Only when I returned to leave a comment did I see what the pic was! The abstract sense that the poem made was awesome (albeit I could not get why you used Keylong, duh!) and when I looked at the pic it made an altogether different sense. I hope I am not sounding dumb, but without looking at picture I thought this was a poem about life, ambition and achievement or is it that I am too obsessed!
You will show us just this one picture, or are we in for some more treat from the Himalayas?
I am mad about mountains, specially the Himalayas, because they are so majestic!!!
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